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"Abolition house" --
"Getting the hang of the house": Congressman Abraham Lincoln --
"At war with Washington": the abolitionists --
"A western free state man": Lincoln and slavery --
"Is the center nothing?": Lincoln's middle ground --
"Cleaning the devil out of Washington" --
"A wide spread and powerful conspiracy": warnings and threats from Washington --
"The way we skulked into this city": claiming the presidency --
"This big White House": the Lincoln family --
"White and black, all mixed up together": the African American community --
"A swift and terrible retribution": striking the first blows --
"Order out of confusion": preparing for war --
"I was slow to adopt the strong measures": loyalty and disloyalty --
"If I were only a boy I'd march off tomorrow": the tide of sick and wounded --
"An unknown something called freedom" --
"Tinkering experiments": toward emancipation --
"Freedom triumphant in war and peace": emancipation in Washington --
"We must use what tools we have": toward total war --
"On the soil where they were born": the former slaves --
"The step which, at once, shortens the war": the Emancipation Proclamation --
"Defend what is our own": the limits of freedom --
"Never forget what they did here": honoring the fallen --
"Worth more than a victory in the field": the end in sight --
Epilogue: "The country was ready to say amen."

Responsibility:

Kenneth J. Winkle.

Abstract:

The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom.Read more...

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

"Well-researched and thoroughly engaging, Winkle's history is a welcome addition to a body of Civil War literature that too often privileges men and massacres." -- Publishers Weekly "Kenneth Winkle has earned a reputation for original research, expert interpretation, and crackerjack storytelling, and all these attributes are on full display in Lincoln's Citadel. This is an invaluable addition to the Lincoln bookshelf." -- Harold Holzer, chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, and author of Lincoln President-Elect "Lincoln's Citadel sets a new standard for research and insight into wartime Washington. Kenneth Winkle has taken the political intrigue of the nation's besieged capital and turned it into the setting for a remarkable series of human stories about the ordinary men and women who rallied to help President Lincoln save the Union." -- Matthew Pinsker, author of Lincoln's Sanctuary "When Lincoln became president, Washington was just emerging from its long tenure as a sleepy outpost of Southern proslavery domination of this professedly democratic nation. Kenneth Winkle eloquently chronicles the transformation of the capital wrought by the Civil War, when Washington became the nerve center of a huge war effort that in turn transformed the nation, freed four million slaves, and launched America on its course toward modernity." -- James M. McPherson, author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865Read more...